Snap Gridz vs Roots Playbook

This app is a modern, all-in-one platform designed to create, customize, organize, and print American football playbooks for coaches at any level. Built with simplicity and power in mind, it gives coaches full control over formations, plays, and entire playbooks—all in a clean, championship-inspired interface. Coaches can design custom formations and plays using an interactive grid system. Each grid cell allows users to assign player symbols, positions, or markers across offense, defense, and special teams, ensuring total flexibility for any scheme or philosophy. Plays and formations are saved into a tiered storage system, making it easy to build, reuse, and organize concepts over time. The app features a My Playbook section where users can start new playbooks or pull from existing saved formations and plays. Everything is fully editable, nameable, and printable—ideal for game planning, meetings, and sideline use.

Roots Playbook is a football play designer for coaches. Build formations, draw routes and blocking, call your defense, and press Play to watch the play develop, from motion through the snap to the finish. BUILT FOR THE WAY COACHES THINK • Any setup from 5v5 to 11v11: presets for 5v5, 6v6, 7v7, 8v8, 9v9 and 11v11, or set your own number of players on each side • Formations you can reuse across every play in a playbook • Routes, blocking, pre-snap motion, handoffs, passes and option reads • Defensive calls by team, position group or individual defender: fronts, stunts, pressures, and man or zone coverage WATCH IT RUN • Animated playback, from motion through the snap to the route • Scrub through a play step by step, or slow it down to teach it ON THE SIDELINE • Sideline View: any playbook full screen and read-only, for game day • Swipe between plays and between a play’s options; tap a player to see his assignment • Turn the field to face the way you do, upright or sideways, online or off FIND ANYTHING • Pull down from the top of a page to search every play, option, formation and playbook you can open PRINT AND SHARE • Wristband cards sized for youth and adult bands, ready to print • Play sheets as PDF or image, and animation videos • Your plays, your diagrams: export your whole library any time YOUR TEAM, IN SYNC (optional) • Sign in with Apple or Google and turn on sync for a playbook to use it on your iPhone, iPad and computer • Invite coaches as Admins, Editors or Viewers • Edit together live, with changes and history kept for each play • Share a view-only Team View link or code with players and parents. No account needed to view PRIVATE BY DESIGN • Everything works on your device without an account • No ads, no tracking, no AI • Screenshots and screen recordings are blocked in the app, to help keep your playbook yours Roots Playbook is for coaches, players, parents and team staff. Accounts are for ages 13 and up; everything else works without one. Free for a limited time.